BJP Launched Sankalp Patra: Had No Mention of NRC However Stayed Inflexible Towards CAA
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New Delhi: On Sunday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) revealed their manifesto ‘Sankalp Patra’ for the forthcoming LokSabha elections; however, the commitment to launching the National Register of Citizens (NRC) is missing from the ‘Sankalp Patra’.
As stated in the BJP’s published ‘Sankalp Patra’ before the 2019 general election, to promptly complete the NRC operation in Assam. Also under the Supreme Court’s scrutiny, the NRC has promised expansion to other states. The 2024 ‘Sankalp Patra’ reiterates the grant of citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) for Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan citizens; however, there was nothing mentioned about the NRC.
The list of names belonging to Indian citizens is called the National Register of Citizens (NRC). The only time a National Register of Citizens (NRC) was created was in 1951, following the completion of the Census, in which case the NRC was created by compiling information about every individual counted in the Census. And according to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, it withdraws the barriers to obtaining Indian citizenship for anyone who arrived in India on or before December 31, 2014, including Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians. From the neighbouring countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.
The intention for the gradual implementation of NRC in various parts of the nation is illegal immigration. Citing the significant changes it had made to the linguistic and cultural identities of these regions as well as the detrimental effects it had on the way of life of the local populace,.
In December 2019, when the CAA bill was approved, the opposition members of the parliament attempted to connect the NRC with the CAA bill. Claiming that it was a precursor to the NRC and that Indian Muslims without citizenship were not citizens. However, the government has stated from time to time that there is no connection between CAA and NRC. It asserts that the government has not stated that it intends to prepare the NRC. Also, the CAA does not have the authority to deny citizenship to anyone, Muslim or any other community per se.
Over four years after it was passed in parliament. The CAA was finally put into effect last month.
Despite the BJP’s 2019 manifesto making no mention of a progressive rollback of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) from the northeast, the region has seen a 71% fall in insurgency occurrences over the last five years, which has resulted in a considerable reduction in the number of places classified as “disturbed” under the Act.
AFSPA is now limited to eight districts in Assam. Nineteen police stations in seven districts of Manipur have been cleared of AFSPA. While eight districts and eight police stations in Nagaland are no longer covered by it, In Meghalaya in March 2018 and Tripura in May 2015, AFSPA was completely removed.
It’s interesting to note that, given the better security conditions, Home Minister Amit Shah had alluded to intentions to remove AFSPA from some areas of J&K in a recent interview with a TV programme located in Kashmir.
Some other measures were taken for security purposes.
Other security-related commitments made in the most recent BJP manifesto include the prompt enforcement of new criminal laws, breaking up drug trafficking organisations, and strengthening Bharat’s digital sovereignty by taking decisive action against online entities that pose a risk to India’s online safety.
The party’s ‘Sankalp Patra’ highlights the fact that there haven’t been any terror attacks in any city since 2014, that there has been a notable drop in violence in J&K after Article 370 was revoked, and that there has been a 52% decrease in violence by left-wing extremists.
Declaring once again that it will not tolerate acts of terror, as demonstrated by the surgical strikes in 2016 and 2019, the BJP vowed to protect the nation and its people.
The BJP manifesto places emphasis on improving border surveillance and infrastructure. There are very prominent plans to build roads, railways, and telecom towers, as well as install optical fibre connections and energy in areas near the borders with Indo-China, Indo-Pakistan, and Indo-Myanmar.
This is already being worked on as part of the Vibrant Villages Programme (VVP) along the Indo-China border.
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